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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. -- Dale Carnegie
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. -- John F. Kerry
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. -- Mike Ferguson
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. -- Cory Booker
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves. -- Rosa DeLauro
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together. -- Parker Stevenson
War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying. -- Russell Crowe
Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. -- Cory Booker
Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war. -- Helen Caldicott
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. -- Mick Jagger
War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death. -- Chris Hedges
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot. -- Jules Renard
The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism. -- Thomas Stephen Szasz
Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms. -- Dov Davidoff
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. -- Howard Thurman
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. -- William James
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform. -- Tim Ryan
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. -- Ambrose Bierce

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